Sales book



P 1941- c. M. S-TEWART, JR 2,256,956

v SALES BOOK Filed April 25, 1940 Patented Sept. 23, 1941 SALES BOOK Charles Morton Stewart, Jr.,

Eccleston, Md., as-

signor to The Baltimore Salesbook Company,

Baltimore, Md.,

a corporation of Maryland Application April 25', 1940, Serial No. 331,661

1 Claim.

This invention relates to salesbooks and more particularly to the type known as manifolding salesbooks.

Used by stores of all types for convenience in 1 recording sales, these books are issued to salespeople and usually comprise multiple leaves in manifold sets with insertable interleaved carbon sheets whereby a multiple sales record is made at one writing.

It is the purpose of the present invention to provide a salesbook with means whereby the labeling of packages containing purchases to be sent may be facilitated by having that portion of one of the salesbook leaves which is used as a label for such a package, pregummed.

Referring to the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a triplicate salesbook with a leaf set partly open;

Fig. 2 is a similar View of another form of salesbook;

Figs. 3 and 4 are side elevations with a leaf set open;

Figs. 5 and 6 are perspective views of Figs. 3 and 4;

Figs. 7 and 8 are perspective views of the combined label and delivery record; and

Fig. 9 shows the label in use.

In the salesbook shown in Figures 1, 3, 5 and 7 the numeral Ill indicates the record sheet bound in book form through the medium of a suitable binding H and carrying, by means of the usual adhesive spots l2-|2 a sheet [3 folded at [4 to form the second, or customer's receipt sheet l5, and the third, or auditors sheet [6. Below the address box I! the sheets l5 and I6 are weakened, as at l8, so that the free ends of the sheet l3 may be torn off to leave the short folded portion secured to the sheet In by adhesive l2. The short portion is easily detachable from the sheet I and is then in the form shown in Fig. 7 wherein part is the remaining portion of sheet I5 and similarly portion I6 is the remaining portion of sheet l6.

Before and during the printing of the various leaves the portion of the sheet l5 directly in rear of the address box I! is coated with quick drying glue as at l9 and assembled in the finished book. When a package is to be sent the combination shown in Fig. 7 goes to the shipping room along with the merchandise. The bundle is wrapped, portion l6 separated from portion l5 by tearing along the fold 20, the adhesive coating l9 suitably moistened and the portion I5 affixed to the package by said moistened adhesive to form a delivery label and the portion it retained as a shipping label.

In the construction shown in Figures 2, 4, 6 and 8 the address box I! is at the bottom of the leaves in order to suit the practice of certain stores. at 2| and is interleaved between upper and lower sheets 22-23 formed by a continuous sheet folded at 24. The sheets 22-23 are weakened at 25 just above the address box I! in order that the folded central portion may be torn therefrom as in Figure 8. A coating of glue I9 is applied to sheet 23 as shown. This combined label and shipping record is used in the same way as that shown in Figure 7.

By forming the salesbook with the pregummed portion underlying the address box I! thus forming a prepared label much time is saved in the preparation of packages for delivery. The pasting operation usually performed by the shipping clerk is done away with and supplanted by a simple moistening step.

While the invention has been shown as applied to a triplicate record book it may be used in connection with books employing duplicate, triplicate, quadruplicate or other multiple record sets.

What I claim is:

An article of the class described comprising first, second and third leaves in manifold relation, said second and third leaves being detachably connected together at one end and each having a portion detachable from the remainder thereof at a distance from said end, said remainder of the second leaf having adhesive material disposed thereover and being secured by a portion of said adhesive at a restricted area thereof to the third leaf, the structure enabling detachment of said remainders as a unit from the first leaf following detachment of said portions, and subsequent separation of said remainders so that the one provided with adhesive may be used as a delivery label and the other used as a shipping label.

C. MORTON STEWART, JR.

In this form the bound in sheet is shown" 

